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DV 2022 All Selectees (Consular Processing - CP)

MCK23 said:
This is just dump.
They really are just a bunch of idiots.
The VB going up dosen't change the fact that they have only issued 1290 cases and scheduled 5897 cases.
If they obey to the law, they have to work in case number order and they still have to to do thousands of cases before the 13500.
This is just dump!
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I completely agree. That is beyond idiotic. We all know they are not appointing interviews in numerical order.
The people who completed their DS-260s early are the true winners here. SMH
 
@Britsimon explained that the embassies play a major role here (many times). KCC can make cases go current and uncurrent again. It happened before ...
It also gives them leverage to hand more 2nl for embassies that are operational.
 
I do not understand why they do not want to processed more cases. They should at least process all cases or let people know that early submission counts and not case numbers.
 
This is how it happened last year. So, next month we could see they remove the Except countries. They've gone almost current right now (e.g. like June 2021). And they could remove the country limitations next.
 

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Butters said:
Jesse's opinion was a follow up to what he said in the previous BritSimon interviews (check the first interview with him). In short, Jesse's opinion was that if he were in the government lawyers' shoes and saw the current numbers issued in the lawsuits, they would want to pump up the numbers to look better in front of a judge. So, they would talk with the government and tell them to get the numbers up. Now, one tactic the government could use is to increase the VB a lot, reveal more selectees and so more interviews. This could mean someone in a small EU embassy about to be current in September would become current and issued a visa sooner so that the numbers in front of the judge would look better.
Also, note that the lawsuit was filed on 1st February. Then we saw loads of 2NLs from Ankara, Islamabad, Katmandu and some Algeria. These were unprecedented in timing meaning that we usually wouldn't see any 2NLs in the first two weeks of a month, yet alone from closed embassies.

Also, in my personal opinion, they could go current in VB in June/July as to maximise visa usage. In other words if they go as usual, they may issue 20k visas. But, if they go current, they could use an additional 10k (arbitrary numbers) visas by prople in countries with few selectees and free embassies. I know how the VB supposed to work, but this could be part of the government's playbook as Jesse mentioend.
On the contrary, they could also slow the VB as to argue lawsuits should be dismissed as lots of plaintiffs aren't current. However, as Jesse said, this would also work against them since it's showing the damage they've done.

Another point which noone has mentioned. There's the immpact litigation which has been filed (not sure if it's been filed) in DC and could most likely go in front of judge Mehta. Now, Judge Mehta has only seen 2020 and 2021 cases where all regions went current. He did also understood that high case numbers are in a jeopardy due to their number. But, overall the immpact litigation could argue for VB and there'd be some interesting stuff there.


We will hopefully see some more government response with respect to VB and 2NLs by the end of February. Both of these for one could give us a very good clue of the mathematics behind the year. There may also be some good surprises.


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Apparently, I made some good reasoning as to why what happened now might have happened. I'm very impressed wirh myself.
Everyone, feel free to complement me.
 
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Hi, what does the huge jump in numbers mean for April? Especially for myself who has a case number of EU26XXX, is it a good thing, or is it predictable and won't mean anything in the progression of the DV lottery, thanks.

I already had lost my hope completely, seeing how everything is going, but this kind of excited me a bit since a long time.
 
Butters said:
Apparently, I made some good reasoning as to why what happened now might have happened. I'm very impressed wirh myself.
Everyone, feel free to complement me.
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You know they have to do DV2021 issuance too, so the faster they finish 2022, the better for them.
 
Albaba said:
You know they have to do DV2021 issuance too, so the faster they finish 2022, the better for them.
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It's not about finishing dv22 faster. In fact, they're not getting to 54850 at all.

In addition to what I said in my earlier post outlining their reasoning, they now end up with free small embassies that can do dv20 and dv21 in the summer. I believe lots of Gomez20 visas will be done at the smaller European embassies (basically EU minus Warsaw). This is one reason why EU number is more pumped up even more than other regions that all have been pumped. It's to free up the smaller embassies.
 
hello everyone

Thanks all of you for sharing info about DV-2022, I've been reading tons of pages in this forum.

I've been selected for DV 2022.
I have a bit of a peculiar situation: I have 3 derivatives(wife, 2 children) but they do not want to immigrate to the US - they do not want to apply for the Diversity Visa.
According to the instruction on the initial DV application(2020), I filled in entries for all derivatives, regardless if they want or not to immigrate. So now they all have an entry on the DS-260 page:

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I'm trying to find out if this is ok or will it block processing my case at KCC.
I hired an immigration lawyer and he told me to leave the derivatives that do not want to immigrate un-submitted as seen in the picture above..
I contacted KCC on email multiple times and every time I only get a copy & paste response with generic info about DS-260 which do not apply to my case.

How do you feel, will this cause any problems?
I appreciate any tips/info.

Thank you
 
wye said:
hello everyone

Thanks all of you for sharing info about DV-2022, I've been reading tons of pages in this forum.

I've been selected for DV 2022.
I have a bit of a peculiar situation: I have 3 derivatives(wife, 2 children) but they do not want to immigrate to the US - they do not want to apply for the Diversity Visa.
According to the instruction on the initial DV application(2020), I filled in entries for all derivatives, regardless if they want or not to immigrate. So now they all have an entry on the DS-260 page:

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I'm trying to find out if this is ok or will it block processing my case at KCC.
I hired an immigration lawyer and he told me to leave the derivatives that do not want to immigrate un-submitted as seen in the picture above..
I contacted KCC on email multiple times and every time I only get a copy & paste response with generic info about DS-260 which do not apply to my case.

How do you feel, will this cause any problems?
I appreciate any tips/info.

Thank you
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Did you indicate on your own DS260 form that your derivatives will not be accompanying you? If yes, you're fine. Your derivatives form will continue to show as incomplete which is not a problem.
 
wye said:
hello everyone

Thanks all of you for sharing info about DV-2022, I've been reading tons of pages in this forum.

I've been selected for DV 2022.
I have a bit of a peculiar situation: I have 3 derivatives(wife, 2 children) but they do not want to immigrate to the US - they do not want to apply for the Diversity Visa.
According to the instruction on the initial DV application(2020), I filled in entries for all derivatives, regardless if they want or not to immigrate. So now they all have an entry on the DS-260 page:

View attachment 3312

I'm trying to find out if this is ok or will it block processing my case at KCC.
I hired an immigration lawyer and he told me to leave the derivatives that do not want to immigrate un-submitted as seen in the picture above..
I contacted KCC on email multiple times and every time I only get a copy & paste response with generic info about DS-260 which do not apply to my case.

How do you feel, will this cause any problems?
I appreciate any tips/info.

Thank you
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This happened to me.

I have two children on my ds-260 but they are US citizens. I did not complete the DS-260 and we were scheduled for interview ok. The CO at interview asked about the 3rd and 4th applicants and I explained and there was no problem
 
Aussiebrit said:
This happened to me.

I have two children on my ds-260 but they are US citizens. I did not complete the DS-260 and we were scheduled for interview ok. The CO at interview asked about the 3rd and 4th applicants and I explained and there was no problem
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Thanks for the reply Aussiebrit and Sm1smom.
I did indeed marked in my DS-260 that they will not accompany me.
 
I'm preparing to submit my adjustment of status fee and have two questions:
1. Is it ok to provide an address on the self addressed envelope and on the Word document that I plan to enclose (with DV number, name, address etc.) that is different to the address where I currently reside?
2. Is it possible to include a self-addressed envelope with tracking so I can track where the DV Payment Receipt is, once posted? Not sure if there are any rules around this e.g. would need to be USPS tracking? If anyone has tips on how to do this it would be much appreciated.

Thanks!
 
atomic_chop said:
I'm preparing to submit my adjustment of status fee and have two questions:
1. Is it ok to provide an address on the self addressed envelope and on the Word document that I plan to enclose (with DV number, name, address etc.) that is different to the address where I currently reside?
2. Is it possible to include a self-addressed envelope with tracking so I can track where the DV Payment Receipt is, once posted? Not sure if there are any rules around this e.g. would need to be USPS tracking? If anyone has tips on how to do this it would be much appreciated.

Thanks!
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Post AOS related questions on the AOS thread only please. Asking AOS related questions on the general non-AOS thread will create unnecessary confusion for those processing CP.
 
Albaba said:
This same delay happened in January VB, I knew they will go to a large number but I was not expecting Africa to get to 50000 this quick,
- In that regard, there are many embassies that are open and cases are not current yet. It will give KCC a chance to hand out 2nls like crazy this time.

* My advice is to check your appointments from the DV Lottery application page, because some people do not even receive 2nl emails, or even see ready in the CEAC status, but their appointments have been set. Without them knowing*
Good luck.
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Not quite sure about EU being almost current.
Perhaps someone else may either confirm or refute my thought here.
In the Aug 2021 bulletin, the total EU selectees were 39999 (or something like that).
When you analyze the valid numbers between EU00000001 and EU00029001 there are around 20000 cases.
So, we have 20000 more cases that are beyond EU00029k (distributed who knows how).
 
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